Journalist takes fossil-fueled trip to Alaska in summer; gets boot stuck in mud; blames CO2

...and from there, it no doubt follows that the UN gets to run the world?

Chelsea Wald: Adventures in Alaskan science: How I escaped from a thermokarst

...I had taken a helicopter out to one of the important thermokarst sites on Alaska's North Slope, where hydrologist Mike Gooseff of Penn State is working. This one formed following a massive fire that burned 1,000 square kilometers of the Arctic tundra in 2007.
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It's into one of those gloopy places that I stepped—and sank. First, my boots went up to the ankles. I wasn't too worried. But the more I struggled, the more I sank. I finally got one boot out, but at the cost of the other...It's not unreasonable to think that the rise in thermokarsts is the result of global warming.

Chelsea Wald - Bio

I'm a freelance journalist specializing in (but not limited to) science, medicine and the environment. After graduating from Columbia University with a bachelor's in astronomy, I traveled to Chile on a Fulbright grant to study ancient Andean cosmology. I returned to the United States and earned a master's in journalism from Indiana University.